A Land Far Away

New Metallica Album. Due September 12, leaked to the internet 10 days early thanks to a french retailer breaking the street date (finally something good from the french).

Making this post to hear peoples thoughts. Surely i am not the only Metallica fan in this community. If your patient and wait for its actual release to comment thats cool, if your impatient like me, you likely already have it.

Thoughts?

Personally, i find it a vast, vast improvement over St. Anger, and in parts i feel that they actually lived up to the talk of throwing back to the days of Master of Puppets (still one of the best metal albums released), and a true return to form for the band. After St. Anger did away with them, hearing Kirk Hammett solos again was just awesome.

What i don't understand is why they picked The Day That Never Comes as the first single, as it is easily the weakest song on the album (thought thats not to say it is bad, its just not as good as the rest).

I've heard 2 songs so far and it's not been remotely exciting really.

Swift wrote:Personally, i find it a vast, vast improvement over St. Anger...

Anything can be a vast, vast improvement over St. Anger. What a god awful train wreck of an album that was. There was maybe one song that was worth listening to whenever I spoke to my friends about it.

Anyway, I haven't looked into the album yet. I'll give it a listen and post my thoughts.

Screw Metallica. Ever since Napster they can DIAF.

Lusipher wrote:Screw Metallica. Ever since Napster they can DIAF.

Lars is getting soft on piracy these days

He was asked on Radio the day the album got leaked for his thoughts and he said:

Listen, we're ten days from release. I mean, from here, we're golden. If this thing leaks all over the world today or tomorrow, happy days. Happy days. Trust me. Ten days out and it hasn't quote-unquote fallen off the truck yet? Everybody's happy. It's 2008 and it's part of how it is these days, so it's fine. We're happy.

Besides, Napsters downfall brought much better systems

We still have moderators?

From some of the stuff that's been posted and not moderated I thought all the changes in Administration had managed to kill it off.

Excellent album.

It reminds me a bit of Slayer (Seasons In The Abyss, also produced by Rubin, I believe). Not a bad thing.

Anything is an improvement over St. Anger which was an astonishingly poor Metallica product.

Death Magnetic really reaches back to their thrash roots. The Black album is a classic and their then new direction with Load and so forth was decent work but we all I think wanted them to make more of the legendary thrash they were known for.

The Day That Never Comes.... I suspect they had a mind for that to be "the new Sanitarium". *shrugs*

Vaelahr wrote:The Day That Never Comes.... I suspect they had a mind for that to be "the new Sanitarium". *shrugs*

The new 'One' apparently. Not a bad song, but far from the albums best. Why it was the first single ill never know. If they wanted to project a picture of them getting back to what made them good (even if recapturing that feel is a pipe dream) there are at least 4 or 5 better songs they could have used as the first single.

All Nightmare Long and The End of the Line are the standouts IMO.

Without knowing it was their first single The Day The Never Comes became my favorite. Though I'm warming to Cyanide and All Nightmare Long more and more.